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Max Payne on consoles, a Star Trek chat, and a visit with Mr. Pickle Boy.

By IGN Staff

Take-Two's PC Ports Take-Two Interactive is porting a number of high profile PC games from its partner The Gathering of Developers to various console gaming platforms. Max Payne (from 3D Realms and Remedy Entertainment) will go to the Dreamcast, and Kiss: Psycho Circus will come to the PlayStation. Yesterday, Take-Two also announced a new Duke Nukem game in the third person point of view for an unnamed next generation console system.

Talkin' Star Trek Interplay is having another of its ubiquitous Internet Relay Chat (IRC) sessions, this time with the producers of Starfleet Command, the strategic combat simulation set in the Star Trek universe.

The chat is with two of the designers and a programmer. It happens this Thursday at 6 PM PST, on the IRC channel at chat.annex.com port 6667 in #interplay.

The game itself is based on the old Starfleet Battles board game--read our preview for more hinkfo.

New baseball game is cheaper than most Microsoft's new baseball game, Microsoft Baseball 2000, will be significantly cheaper than many of its competitors--it will be only $20. Ed Fries, manager of Microsoft's games division, says the reason was to broaden the game's appeal to both baseball fans and computer gamers.